Drones Hit St. Petersburg Oil Terminals, VK Data Center, and Bridge
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A Ukrainian drone attack early Sunday morning, Oct. 18, struck critical infrastructure across St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, igniting blazes at the Petersburg Oil Terminal and the Ruchyi fuel depot. Drones also damaged a VK enterprise data center and an electrical substation in Novosergievka, causing social network outages and leaving 20,000 people without power. Further impacts include a fire at a 79,000-square-meter Ozon logistics hub in Kolpino and damage to a cable-stayed bridge on the Western High-Speed Diameter.
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